I bought my mom a pixel and installed graphene on it and gave her. She is by no means a power user. Never underestimate the will of nerds to go a step further :)

Beebop, to be precise.

They are getting more aggressive by the day it seems. Luckily I’ve been windows free for 10 years now. And recently, I switched almost my entire extended family to Linux mint to great success. Only my brother in law still uses win, cause of games, specifically anti cheat - the last hurdle for many people.

I mean, heresy was invented to suppress politically conflicting directions of Christianity. Gnosticism was a popular direction at one point in history, dominating the “mainstream” in some parts of the world. There were more Marcian churches than trinitarian. Gnosticism is only weird from your perspective, after it was already basically outlawed. Admittedly, that is probably a valid justification for calling it with weird, but I’d like to make a distinction that it is not weird on its own, only because it got banned. In fact, in the context of being influenced by Greek philosophy, it was quite logical. Judas gospel was probably not written by Judas, but other, canonical gospels werw probably not written by original authors either, at least some of them.

Not trying to defend temu, they are definitely careless enough to breach way bigger restrictions than this. However, don’t just ignore the rest of the context here.

• Almost no country bans small magnets
• Almost no child eats 100s of them
• It is easy for a store so vast to not know about a restriction so specific and so unusual

It’s unreasonable of you to only direct blame to Temu (which are know to be negligent and aggressive at testing the limits of what they can get away with) in this particular, unusual case.

Makes a bit of sense, since their Mazda 6e is a rebadged changan, but compliance driven design obviously only makes automakers search for loopholes. It basically ends up creating even more waste, as manufacturers only create cars that are not meant to seriously compete in the market. It’s a lose-lose situation for everyone but politicians, who trick the public into thinking they are addressing the carbon problem, while at the same time taking money from manufacturers. We need solutions that work, not temporary, pretend solutions.

No, I mean, both graphene and lineage are based on aosp. But graphene supports only one vendor. Lineageos supports many, including google. Why invest in a vendor-locked os and risk loosing it all? I think lineage is a lot more logical choice. And I’m currently running Graphene on a pixel 8, after pixel 7.

If google restricts access to its os, like they have already started, all you’ll have is pixel up to 10/11 still supported 10 years from now. They’ve already started by no longer providing device trees in aosp for their phones, so graphene has to work harder to obtain them now. Whereas if you work on lineage, you potentially have a greater number of vendors and potentially new ones ready to open up to draw in new userbase.

Yes, you make a good point. Even the hardware is locked-down. Not something I would buy at this point. Perhaps as my first printer, but then, it’s not cheap exactly.

Whaaat? Drop the OG free Android distribution that has already supported hundreds of phone models across decades for a Google locked hardware with unknown future support from a vendor just announcing locking down everything they can? What is your logic?

Tom Sanladerer pointed some disqualifying flaws at least. Not just praise. But still - as far as I’m considered - no Tux, no Bux. I’d rather buy an inferior or more expensive printer that I can thinker with for as long as I own it, rather than relying on faith to not get locked out of my own printer.

He’s OK, but he’s still in it to make money, not just for fun.

I’ve worked with Qualcomm SoCs a long time ago and, from my experience, the binary blobs ARE the biggest hurdle to the true Foss phone. Google is the most to blame, IMO, but also the rest of traditional OEMS of SoCs. They basically found the way to circumvent the OSS nature of Linux, which is why even though android is based on linux, the actual product and ecosystem looks nothing like regular Linux. What Google allowed with Android architecture, particularly with their HAL subsystem is force a layer in between native Linux device interface and Android system, so OEMs use that to implement whatever proprietary peripheral (device, sensor, etc) purely in userspace, rather that just as a kernel module. The kernel module is then just a userspace/kernelspace adapter, and everything is handled in the user space. This then means you dont have to have an open source driver, as it is not a part of kernel, and you just lock your driver into a binary blob. And in case of Qualcomm and I assume other oems, everything is just a binary blob. All sensors, microphone, GPS, modem, EVERYTHING. Yes, you can boot a basic Linux kernel, but no other functionality will work. If you had access to the blob source, you’d be able to fix, update and use a newer kernel versions eventually. HAL is technically not the cause of the problem, but it’s certainly an inspiration and almost a blueprint for how to lock down your hardware.

A lot of my development experience is actually about handling people. Both management and other developers. Ego is indeed a big problem. I wish my job would be just programming/designing/debugging/testing, but this is not the nature of most of the jobs. Instead it is managing expectations, estimations, negotiating specs, features, explaining what is realistic, what is not, what is possible and what is not and why. It gets tiring quickly and is also thankless as often arrogant people who aren’t actually helpful or working in the best interest of the company get mistaken for rock stars and get to do even more damage you need to fix. You also need to deal with that from time to time.

Indeed. That any imperialist ruler or diplomat gets a peace prize is absurd. Especially from the USA, but any big power would also be absurd.

Wtf? So nobody even pretends Kosovo is a normal place anymore?

On any political opinion, you will have opposing voices, but the success of Tito is of course not easy to quantify. Yes, not too long after his death, the states got into war with each other and we know what happened. In this aspect, he did fail. But compare Yugoslavia to other eastern block countries and I’d say Yugoslavia did far better. In this aspect, the project was a success (somewhat). But we can never answer a hypothetical - would it have been better without Tito - whether with Kingdom continuing or some other solution, there is no way to determine. I would say Tito and SFRJ were a mild success. It definitely could have gone better - but if we compared other Balkan countries - it could definitely gone worse as well. The exact measure of success is not clear though.

I tried it some time ago and it was pretty usable, I reckon it is only better now.

Exactly. Which is also why I use it as well :)

I use stremio as well. But I also know Deluge has a plugin allowing you to stream a selected file from a torrent and it works with vlc